Model Architectures · Practitioner
Foundry Models and Azure OpenAI: Choosing, Deploying and Calling
A catalogue Microsoft describes as over 10,000 models, three deployment types, two auth methods and one endpoint. Learn to make the choices that actually change your bill and your latency.
- 55 min lesson
- intermediate level
- Azure AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Foundry Models catalogue: models sold directly by Azure versus partner and community models
- Global standard, data zone, regional and provisioned throughput deployment types
- Data residency: data zone is usually the right compromise, not regional
- API keys for quickstarts, Microsoft Entra ID and managed identity for production
- Model benchmarks to shortlist, your own golden set to decide
- Routing cheap models for cheap tasks behind one project endpoint
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 3 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.